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OpenAI merged Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app into one app. Codex App replaced the name of ChatGPT Desktop App.

An investigation reveals that the Rio 3.5 397B AI model, funded with $100K, was likely a simple merge of Nex N2 Pro without any training, leading to accusations of funding embezzlement.

Weave is an entity-level semantic merge driver for Git that resolves conflicts by parsing code with tree-sitter, merging functions and classes instead of lines. It supports 28 languages and offers additional coordination and MCP server features for multi-agent workflows.

This paper introduces Minimalist Genetic Programming (MGP), a novel algorithm that replaces evolution with a syntactic derivation process inspired by the Minimalist Program from linguistics, using a MERGE operator to construct symbolic expressions. MGP consistently finds exact ground truth models on symbolic regression tasks where standard GP struggles due to bloat.

Antirez is consolidating community contributions from DwarfStar to improve Strix Halo support, with final QA and merge expected soon.

llama.cpp version b9455 merges a fix for `-sm tensor` KV cache quantization on multi-GPU setups, addressing a shape information loss issue when flattening tensors.

The pull request adding MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) support to llama.cpp has been merged into the master branch.

A new 18B merged quantized model, Qwopus-GLM-18B-GGUF, outperforms 35B MoE models while using half the VRAM and running on consumer GPUs.